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Privateers will be handed £2bn to take NHS patients

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THE TORIES are in talks with private healthcare companies to deal with the backlog of thousands of NHS patients by farming them out, at...

Increase of maternal deaths a tragic indictment of the lack of government investment!

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THE ‘STATISTICALLY significant’ increase in maternal deaths reported on Thursday by MBRRACE-UK is a tragic indication of a lack of government investment in maternity...

Labour leader Corbyn for second referendum!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn insisted yesterday that whatever Parliament decides, Brexit should be put to a ‘popular vote’, and that Labour is still campaigning...

Israeli occupation massacres families in the Gaza Strip!

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least...

Council Made Millions While Cutting Grenfell Costs!

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THE COUNCIL responsible for Grenfell Tower made multimillion-pound property deals while cutting costs to the tower’s restoration, it has emerged. Seventy-two people died when a...

Barnsley Nurses To Strike

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GMB trade union members at Barnsley Hospital have voted to take strike action in a dispute following the introduction of Agenda for Change. The members...

Eu Must Represent Millions Who Are Opposed To Brexit Says Tusk

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THE President of the European Council warned yesterday that anti-Brexit British voters who want to remain in the EU must not be ‘betrayed’. Treating Britain...

£900m PFI COLLAPSE!

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‘WE absolutely call for pfi to be abandoned, it is a failed system which is costing the nhs billions,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told ...
CWU members in Bow, east London, fighting to defend their jobs and stop the casualisation of Royal Mail

‘STRIKES WILL END’ says CWU leader Hayes

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Postal workers in delivery and collection offices around the country were out solid again on Saturday in defence of their union, the Communication Workers’...
Relatives who lost loved ones at the hands of the British army and Sinn Fein MEP, Bairbre de Brun, and West Belfast Assembly member Jennifer McCann at the press conference

‘CALL OFF BRITISH ARMY PARADE THROUGH BELFAST’ by John Coulter

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Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún and MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann were joined by family members, who have lost loved ones at...
Over 50 doctors, health workers and supporters rallied outside the Royal London Hospital yesterday midday in defence of the NHS and pensions

‘The attack on pensions is an attack on the NHS!’

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Over 50 doctors and their supporters organised a demonstration outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London yesterday during their strike over major...
Marchers got a great reception in Coventry city centre from some very generous supporters

Youth Being Treated Like Slaves

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POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...

INSURERS GRAB FOR WELFARE STATE – TUC ‘concerned’

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The Trade Union Congress yesterday expressed ‘serious concerns’ at proposals for private insurance companies to take over the payment of benefits such as unemployment...
Students defy being ‘kettled’ by police in Whitehall on Wednesday

TEN UNIVERSITIES OCCUPIED! – Day of Action on November 30

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TEN universities remained occupied yesterday, including an historic building at Oxford University, while a national ‘student strike’ was called for next Tuesday, November 30. Students...
BMA members marching in central London against the Health Bill – the BMA has now demanded that Lansley resign

LANSLEY RESIGN! – BMA demands

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DELEGATES at the BMA representatives meeting in Bournemouth yesterday called for Health Secretary Lansley to resign against the advice of their leadership. Motion 22 from...
Libyan women took part in last Saturday’s TUC demonstration and urged British workers to stop the war on their country

Savage Air Attacks On Libya!

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‘THE crusader and colonial bombing campaign targeted inhabited areas in the city of Sabha at dawn on Monday, causing the destruction of several houses,’...

Kwarteng Accused Of ‘Making Up’ Aid For Industry Plan

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Treasury officials accused Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng of ‘making things up’ when he appeared on TV yesterday morning. With PM...

20% VAT AND SAVAGE CUTS – imposed by Tory Lib-Dem Budget

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TORY Chancellor Osborne yesterday confirmed the government’s intention to savagely attack child benefits, disability benefits and housing benefits in his Emergency Budget, whilst pushing...
Striking junior doctors and supporters outside London’s North Middlesex Hospital – its A&E is now threatened with closure

1 in 6 A&Es face closure

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ONE in six A&Es across the length and breadth of the country are threatened with closure, according to research by the Health Service Journal...
Sure Start Children’s Centre campaigners and children outside Downing Street with the over 50,000-strong petition opposing the centres closures

‘CUTS PUT OUR KIDS AT RISK’ – say Sure Start protesters

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Over 60 parents, children and their supporters from around the country staged a ‘Save Our Children’s Centres’ Mothers’ Day rally outside Downing...
GMB members and service users lobbying Barnet Council against cuts and privatisation

87,000 More Jobs To Go – Gmb

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The GMB union’s up to date list shows that a total of 87,374 posts are being made redundant at 107 councils across Britain. In...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow yesterday were demanding union leaders fight for every job

Bosses keeping Gourmet locked-out workers waiting

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‘IF I’m told I’m to be made compulsorily redundant I will not accept. I’m fighting for reinstatement and will not give up my claim...
A section of the huge angry crowd rallying in Kensington High Street outside the Israeli embassy last Saturday

50 Killed In Gaza City!

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ON the 13th day of the ongoing military offensive against the Gaza Strip, residents say invading Israeli forces committed ‘a new massacre’ in the...

‘Unacceptable’ Says Bma

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GP LEADERS yesterday slammed as ‘unacceptable’ the decision by St Helens Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to suspend the non-urgent referral of patients to local...

‘Deliberate execution!’ – Palestinian teenagers shot dead

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A SENIOR Palestinian official has accused Israel of the ‘deliberate execution’ of two Palestinian teenagers shot dead by border policemen in a clash in...
Delegates at last year’s Annual Representative Meeting launch their ‘Look After Our NHS’ campaign against privatisation

NHS Crisis – Drastic Cuts Planned

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DRASTIC cuts to the NHS are being planned to meet a budget cut of £15-20 billion, with even bigger spending cuts expected in the...
BMA delegates show their opposition en masse to NHS privatisation at their Annual Representative Meeting in Liverpool yesterday

‘Bring PFI into public ownership’ – BMA conference decides

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DOCTORS at the BMA conference yesterday voted for Motion 269, which stated: ‘That this meeting requests government, in view of new-found enthusiasm...

DEFIANT SADDAM – refuses to recognise stooge court

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Saddam Hussein yesterday insisted he was the president of Iraq, and refused to recognise the US appointed court, declining to give his name or...
Save Chase Farm campaigners join workers from around the country to lobby MPs against hospital closures

Occupy Chase Farm!

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HEALTH chiefs on the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Clinical Strategy Board, yesterday denied that the decision has already been taken to shut the A&E...
CWU pickets at Tooting Delivery Office determined to defend jobs and conditions

‘THIS IS THE TIME TO HIT THEM’ –striking postal workers tell News Line

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LONDON postal workers taking strike action again yesterday at offices across the capital were angered by the offer of their union leaders to Royal...
PCS contingent marching with health workers and their supporters in Leeds on Saturday

6,000 March In Leeds To Defend The NHS!

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MORE than 6,000 trade unionists and NHS supporters marched through Leeds last Saturday afternoon against Tory government cuts and the privatisation of the NHS...
French youth at he head of the one miilion-strong march against the CPE in Paris on April 4 – after the withdrawal of the CPE yesterday French youth are now determined to take the struggle forward to a socialist society

2,000 Nursing Posts Lost Last Month

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Student nurses are being used to plug staffing gaps as NHS trusts axe thousands of qualified nurses in the face of government-induced deficits, the...
‘BBC Radio Israel’, says a placard, during Saturday’s protest against the BBC refusal to broadcast an emergency aid appeal.

50 MPs SLAM BBC OVER GAZA

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More than 50 MPs have signed a House of Commons Early Day Motion (EDM) condemning ‘the refusal of the BBC and other broadcasters to...
The head of the march reaches Cambridge Heath Road on its way to the rally at the People’s Palace, Queen Mary University, Mile End Road

‘Revolution the only answer!’ Trotsky – News Line Anniversary rally told

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UP TO 200 WRP and YS members and supporters marched through East London yesterday on the 43rd anniversary of the News Line daily newspaper...
Part of the 5,000-strong lively demonstration in Nottingham last Saturday demanding national trade union action to defend the NHS

‘There needs to be national action to stop privatisation’

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THERE should be national action to stop NHS Logistics being handed over to parcel firm DHL in a 10-year contract worth more than £3...
Demonstrators in Karachi burn an effigy of George ‘dog’ Bush  after US forces bombed Afghanistan in September 2001

Sign deal to get hardship money says Woodley

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) executive meeting at Transport House, central London yesterday, to demand the...

New Police Bill attacks right to protest! – Labour votes against

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‘THIS GOVERNMENT was elected a year ago on a manifesto to support the police and uphold law and order,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel...

‘CALL A PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKE’ – says London CWU rep

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FIVE thousand Royal Mail workers in north, east and south-east London are striking today, after voting overwhelmingly in ballots to fight ‘executive actions’ by...

Striking PCS members show their support for the Palestinian state!

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STRIKING PCS members were protesting outside the Department of Business & Trade yesterday and showing their support for Palestine. They were joined by a group...

Corus 10% Wage Cut Plan

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One hundred Community, GMB and Unite trade union representatives from Anglo-Dutch steelmaker, Corus, were meeting in London yesterday to discuss company demands for a...

NO WATER, NO DOCTOR, NO SCHOOL, NO JOB!’ – IDPs leave Kandahar camp

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Over 1,000 families in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, have opted to return to their home areas...

Government Of National Unity ‘Not Serious’ Says Hamas

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei said Tuesday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has ‘no objection to the creation of a temporary government of...

CGT warns French fascists will attack the trade unions

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‘ON THE EVE of a crucial election for our Republic,’ the CGT French trade union federation warned of the ‘alarming consequences for our freedoms...

ISRAELI INVASION THREAT – Lebanese army will fight alongside Hezbollah says Defence Minister

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Lebanese Defence Minister Elias Murr yesterday pledged that the Lebanese army will stand and fight against an Israeli invasion. Murr warned: ‘The Lebanese army...

Assad Warns West

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western nations will pay a ‘heavy price’ for supporting al-Qaeda in Syria, warning that the terrorist group...